[…]came of that so I saidyou better write to him again. So she did and to cut a long story short aletter came saying would I go and see John Corfield at Golden Square, whichwas British National headquarters, I think it's now where the Granadabuilding is. I didn't know, what for so one November day in 1[…]
[…]that we had the facilities we needed you see insofar as mounting the Agincourt sequences were concerned. Because clearly having come out of the Globe Theatre into what's known as opening up extension it's no good doing it half cock. And therefore, the only way we could possibly see clearly how[…]
[…]ican studios forged ahead during the war, the UK fell behind; a lot of British films in the past have relied on British sensibilities and have failed internationally; the German and French industries are subsidised and British films should be also; in Japan American films were shown dubbed and with […]
[…]he married a woman called Alma Reville, who was in my time, when I was at Twickenham she used to fix the titles, when she was about 16 she had little golden ringlets, she was a most attractive little girl.Fowler/Lawson: Can we talk about any of the cameramen, the earlier cameramenBill Girdlesto[…]
The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Bryan Langley was interviewed by Arthur Graham on 18 November 1987.1. Improvising with film stockAG: We're on the different types of film stocks. What were their differences, and what were their special requiremen[…]
[…]ilms did you work on after Tawny Pippet?Eric Cross: The Kidnappers with Phil Leacock directing and that was submitted by Pinewood as, for the Academy Awards, but it didn't get it of course, because there were things like On the Waterfront which won it that year. I did Hunted at Pinewood with Dirk Bo[…]
[…] credits include the British television shows Danger Man ( 1967- 1968), The Prisoner ( 1964- 1967) and The Man In […]

NEWSLETTER OF THE BRITISH ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY PROJECT www.historyproject.org.uk Issue 3: Spring 2020 Chair’ s Welcome Dear All, I hope that […]
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1 The British Entertainment History Project Bulletin number 5 www.historyproject.org.uk February 2021 Dear all, Much had been achieved during the […]
